Dining with Devils? Ethnographic Enquiries into the Conflict–Development Nexus in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Korf (0000-0002-4836-9929) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-64 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-0818 • E-ISSN: 1469-9966 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13600810500495998 |
| OpenAlex | W2071019886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper traces the ethnographies of conflict and development in Sri Lanka on two levels of analysis. First, it examines two related discourses in the policy arena of Sri Lanka, one looking at the peace–development nexus, the other at the paradox of welfarism and clientelism in Sri Lanka's polity. Second, it analyses the political field of relief and development practice—its order and disjuncture—as it presented itself during times of ongoing warfare. The empirical studies build on ethnographies of a bilateral German–Sri Lankan development project operating in the war-affected areas of Sri Lanka. Four trajectories of politics and practices in aid and conflict are discussed to illustrate the ambiguities and complexities of multiple perceptions, rules and discourses, which influence the work of aid agencies operating in spaces of military contestation. The analyses suggest that clientelism as a deeply embedded system of ordering and meaning production can be found in both the peaceful areas and the war zones, though in different manifestations. Aid agencies operating in the context of clientelism and ethnicism may need to engage with combatant parties—to “dine with the devils” as it has been named—to build space for bringing aid to needy people in war-affected areas
Clientelism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Ethnography · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sri lanka · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · International Development and Aid · Peacebuilding and International Security · History · Law
Schwierigkeiten mit der kritischen Geographie
Sri Lanka - a divided Church in a divided polity
After war ends
Enjeux et dynamiques locales des micro-institutions de développement dans un village de pêcheurs du sud du Sri Lanka
Torturous dialogues
Repopulating Development
Antinomies of generosity
Religion, Conflict and Boundary Politics in Sri Lanka
Conflict, peacebuilding and NGO legitimacy
The predicament of pastoral sovereignty
Mapping normalcy through vernacular security-development in post-conflict North Waziristan
Crisis in 'a normal bad year
The gift of disaster
In the Eye of the Storm
Militarized Development in Post-war Sri Lanka
Philanthronationalism
The lure of land
Do No Harm
Anti-Politics Machine
Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict
Jugend, Verwundbarkeit und soziale Diskriminierung
Wer hat Angst vorm Schurkenstaat
Countries in Violent Conflict and Aid Strategies
From wars to complex political emergencies
War, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka
Social Capital and the Political Economy of Violence
Doing the Right Thing
Building Peace in Sri Lanka
Development Projects as Arenas of Negotiation for Strategic Groups
Rethinking the Greed-Grievance Nexus
The Ideological History of the Sri Lankan 'Peasantry
Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Encountering Development
Anthropology and the development encounter
Rituals of Development
The Extended Case Method
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |